Sound of the Mountain

山の音 (original)

7.7

/10

1h 36mDrama

Mikio Naruse’s THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN (YAMA NO OTO) was one of the director’s personal favorites among his own movies. The story concerns a woman, Kukiko (Setsuko Hara), trapped in a loveless marriage to Otto (Ken Uehara) and living as a virtual servant to her in-laws. The one solace she has is the sensitivity of her father-in-law (So Yamamura), who tries to better her life in increasingly bold ways. But matters become even more complicated when Kukiko finds herself pregnant, and decides to end the pregnancy without ever revealing her condition.

Spoken language: ja

Starring Setsuko Hara, Sō Yamamura, Ken Uehara, Yōko Sugi, Teruko Nagaoka, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Chieko Nakakita, Rieko Sumi, Hisao Toake, Machiko Kitagawa

Watch "Sound of the Mountain" on Criterion Channel released in 1954. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.